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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-03-30
CHARLES C. Cy EnsH1NEn.

FOLSOM, CAL Il used Butte-Tine in
chronic rheumatism with great benefit.
Please send supply to j. W. Haines,
Genon, New, and oblige yours truly,
L. 6. DURAST, NJ. ID.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-03-30

70. SANTA Able is only sold in
large bottles ut III 90; three for SO 80.
Sold by all Wholesale aud retail drug
gists' f-7-ly.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18
SLANG IN THE PULPIT.

An esteemed contemporary calls
attention to the number Of hired
crusaders from Iowa, Michigan and
others places who are making money
by'uttering their slang from the pull
pit Of southern churches.
They appear to claim that the rev.
erence with which respectable men
Of all classes intuitively regard the
pulpit is sufficient to sanctify their
coarse words and boorish manners
and protect them from that honest
indignation which would find o strik-
ing expression if the slang was ad-
dressed to any individual on the
streets.
The resident minister may be ever
so earnest in his efforts to combat
what he regards as evil, yet he can
not afford to vacate his position to
make room for rowdyism whether
the rowdy Omesfrom Iowa, Georgia,
Michigan or the Salvation Army.
Slang is not argument, and the
stupid bully is little better than a
brute whether he soils the velvet of a
fashionable church or distributes his
slang in the back streets of a city to
the accompaniment Of the drums
and tin bugles of the unwashed mob.
The interest Of good morals is not
advanced by rssdely crushing out the
finer sentiments of people, and
there is in the heart Of every South
ern man a feeling of genuine respect
for an honest religionist as for pure
woman but in each case this re.
spect may be forfeited by deviation
from the path Of rectitude, wher
their words become only las sound
ing brass or u tinkling cymbal."
Ifthere be cases in which mob law
is justifiable, every good man feel
better when he restraints himsel
from Joining the mob. The pondu'
lum of reason may be rudely swayet
/ by passion to one extreme, and ther
it will, by force Of natural law, swing
equally as far in the opposite direc
ton, but 1t will finally gravitate &
the centre when truth and justic
alone control its movements.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

TIE Courier-Journal charges Col.
Colyar Of the American with sup
porting the principles Of John Sher-
man. The Courier Journal Is exactly
right, and the whole effort of Col.
Colyar now is to lead Democrats
astray so far that the presidential
campaign of 1888 will find them al
ready in line with the enemies of the
South. The men who are leaving
the party under every possible plea
and on every scheme devised by
Sherman and Colyar ought to have
the manllness TO denue their posi-
tions and declare themselves radicals
without attempting further to deceive
the people by a mixture of piety and
politics,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

IT Is always In line with some
thoughtless persons to speak of negro
Incidence and laziness, but If any
man has ever seen better workers or
better behaved men than those en-.
gagged in making mortar and carry
ing bricks for building the store Of
Lockert & Reynolds we would like
to know where he found them.
We have seen white men and
negroes work on the same farm many
u summers day In the old slave
times and we have seen the negro
work since the war, and our judge
ment is that as a worker in the heat
of our southern sun he has no equal.
His patient endurance is something
wonderful, and when II comes to
open, hot sunshine in the middle OF
a Tennessee June the colored brother
can just take our place-and we'll
climb up In the Office and brag on
him. ea
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

THE Masonic Fraternity of Ken
lucky have for many years celebrated
the anniversary of st. Johns Day
June 24) with pic-nics at Louisville
and elsewhere throughout the State,
for the benefit Of the Masonic Widows
and Orphans Home of Kentucky, at
Louisville. The occasions have be-
come famous throughout the land,
but this year, 1t has been determined,
the celebration shall eclipse any
thing of the kind that has yet taken
place.
The General Committee have for
several months been at work and
final arrangements have been made
for a celebration to last for three
days, viz: June %, % and oath, the
principle features Of which will be
she Grand Interstate Drills between
u number Of the crack military COM
panies Of the United States, and be-
tween number Of knights Tenn
plar Drill Corps, many Of the most
famous promising to be In attend
ance. BY special arrangements all
railroads will sell excursion tickets
at the rate of one fare for the round
trip to citizens, and three quarters Of
cent per mile to uniformed militia
men and Knights Templar.
Prizesaggregating "a, 25Oare offered
and the contests will be novel and
exciting. Every one who can posi-
bly, go should do so. Officers of the
United States Army will be the
judges Of the drills, detailed from
Washington for the purpose.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

This valuable work, compiled by
his military secretary, Gen. A. L.
Long, Is now ready for subscribers,
and will BIO sold only by snlscrip-
ton.
The book Is compiled from Gen.
Lees private papers, and Gen.
Marcus J. Wright, OF Tennessee, who
isnow agent Of the United States for
the collection OF Confederate recordsf,
has afforded Gen, Long every facility
in aid Of his work. Comprehensive
maps are given and the book will
contain seven hundred pages. Mr..
Harry s. Bunting Of the s. w. p,
University is agent for Montgomery
county, and we cordially commend
him to all our friends.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

AT recent celebration at Fort
Worth, Tex, the occasion being
a rousing Notification in honor of the
city's growth, Mr.. Thorp Andrews,
one of the orators, said:
"You come from every portion of
this great State-from the pineries OF
the East to the cactus fields of the
West; from where the gorgeous sun
shine tints the draperies of the noun
tain Businesses Of the great Northwest,
to where the malden's morning blush
Is first kissed by the breezes from the
sailed seas. And | will hear repeat
what / have said on a former occasion
as illustrative Of the hopes, ambitions
and expectations of this city. We
expect In the near future to rival
New York in the ubiquity of our
commerce; Paris in the arts and
sciences; Lowell in the number and
variety of our institutions of learning;
Rome in splendor and pageantry,
and London In wealth and lordly
palaces"
And when the young orator had
finished and sat down on a blooming
cactus bush he felt like he was at the
next station to New Jerusalem.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

THE interstate commerce commits
sioners say that after the expiration
of the present limited suspension of
the long and short haul section of the
law the whole of it will go into effect
according to its provisions.
No further order, the commission
says, will be made upon any Of the
petitions, for, although some two or
three of the cases may not, by the
facts recited in the applications for
relief, be brought strictly within the
principles discussed in the decision,
yet they all present what are claimed
to be different circumstances and con-
ditlons adequate to authorize excep
tions to the general rules, and IL the
petitioners are persuaded that the
fact is as they represent, they SHOULD
act under the statute accordingly.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

BROTHER GARDNER, of the Lime
Kiln Club, recently remarked: i
like man who has bin foolish 'nufl
to git drunk an strong huff to kick
the temptashun ober a seven-rail
fence. Den you knows whar to find
him, He has bin dar an knows what
a fool he was. And / like q man
who has been a liar, and who hasn't
entirely recovered from de injury,
Den l know how to trade bosses wild
him, an / know what to believe
when he tells me dat he has bin
fishin',
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

THE jolly editor of one Of our es-
teemed exchanges thus tells his grief:
Hope not realized, like hope de-
ferred maketh the heart sick, OF
which fact a practical illustration is
to have the family COW lay out, when
your rations Of coffee and tea are ex-
hausted.
OF course there is no balm in Gilead,
and no place for milk-shake, with
the milk shook out of it, to be found
in his town. He ought to go down
on the spring branch and look for his
cow In the shade of the mint groves.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18
The Excellent Qualities.

OF the delightful liquid fruit reme-
dies, Syrup OF figs. commend il TO all
who suffer from Habitual Constipation
and kindred ills. Being in liquid form
and pleasing TO the taste, harmless in iss
nature, strengthening as well as cleans
ing in its properties. il is easily taken
by old and Young, and truly beneficial
in its effects, and therefore the iayorite
family remedy, especially with the Ia
dies and children, who require . gentle
yet effective laxative. For sale by all
leading druggists,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

"DIsINTEGRATING" is the mild
term by which the Hopkinsville
New Era alludes TO the dissolution
of the aggregation of cranks and
= croakers constituting the radical
panty in Kentucky.
Hon John Feland, of Hopkins
vile, who was nominated for Attor-
ney General, is the last one who has
refused to "follow suit" and thrown
up his hand in their little game of
"frCeze-out."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

"CoL. DAN. LAMONT" says the
Mail and Express, "tells fish stories
that would made Bill Nye blush"
Mr.. Nye, on reading the above, as
serted that the writer could not
know him personally. 81 have read
Lamont's stories carefully" contin-
ued Mr.. Nye, "and am confident that
l did not turn red. In fact, few
weeks sojourn in New York mas
permanently impaired my blushing
apparatus"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18


THE suit Of George Rice, the Ohio
oil manufacturer, against the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad Com
pany, for alleged discrimination in
favor of the Standard Oil Company,
was decided by Judge Howell f.
Jackson Monday, the injunction
prayed for being refused.
THIS Is case in which, however,
the alleged discrimination was made
before the passage of the interstate
commerce bill, and Judge Jackson
only decided that at the time stated
the Railroad Company had a right t.
discriminate-which they are no
allowed to do under the present law
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18
a SECTION of the Salvation Army

a SECTION Of the Salvation Army
is working" the Kansas towns; and
here is one Of its recent circulars
advertising a prayer meeting :
"Smiling Belle, from Wichita, Kas.,
the girl who jumped out of a two
story window to get salvation, will
be ats Rink Monday, May Is,
at s p, m, Cyclones OF salvation
TqrnadoA, o. power! Gales of grace
Ssl"SStial baeezes! Collection at the
door to defray expenses"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

sTHE pig-iron American abusing
John Sherman Is the revised edition
of the smutty-faced Kedive Of perdi-
ton repriinanding an interloping
retail competitor, or the cast-iron
culinary implement making in
congruvial remarks concerning the
completion of its sable-hued neigh
Dor. The veriest irony ever en-
bodied In the English language.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18
IN A PROHIBITION TOWN.

During the first month of the no
license regime In Greenfield over
1900 sales of liquor have been mace
for medicinal purposes" in the four
local drug stores. As tie prescrip-
tions have been mostly pint bottles
of whisky, 1t is only fair to assume
that there has been a great deal OF
sickness in Greenfield.--BOaon Trans
scrip.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18
Syrup Of Figs.

Manufactured only by the California
Fig Syrup Co., San Francisco, CAL, is
Natures Own true Laxative. II is the
most easily taken and the most pleas
antly effective remedy known TO cleanse
the system when bilious or costive; to
dispel headaches, colds and fevers; to
cure habitual constipation, indigestion,
etc. For sale in so cents and 81. 90
bottles by all leading druggist.
e Dec 251y
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18
THE princinal of a colOrad norm al

THE Principal of u colored normal
school at Huntsville, Ala, with fif-
teen Of his pupils, entered and took
seats in ladies' car on the Memphis
Il Charleston road. Those in the car,
y dozen ladies and one gentleman,
politely gave up possession and en-
tered the car provided for colored
passengers, which was without occu-
pants.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

KY, New Era: Wanted-TwO
good, solid, Republican candidates;
to travel with new company now
playing in Kentucky. No Mug
wuinps need apply. Address Mr..
VIM. O'Bradley, manager g. o. p.
on the wing.
William Overcropped Bradley can
find just what he wants by applying
to the American office In Nashville.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

ONE of the fundamental and
universal peculiarities Of the human
mind is the tendency to inquire into
other peoples private affairs" is
what old man Hardup remarked
Ito HIMSELF as he was returning late
from business meeting Of the Go-as-
you-please knights Of Industry and
was thinking OF what his wife would
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

SINCE the explosion of natural
gas in the paper-mills at Tarentum
furnaces and steam boilers have been
dispensed with and the gas Is intro
duced into the steam cylinders direct.
Having a pressure Of from sixty to
100 pounds, it drives the piston rods
AS efficiently as steam at the same
pressure.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

IT is q curious fact, not yet ex-
planned, that oaks are more frequent
ly struck by lightning than any other
trees; if the danger for beeches be 1,
that for pines is 10, and for oaks "a.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

IT appears that they are having
monkey and Parrot time in Texas,
and in San Antonio, one Sutherland
has been shelled with bad eggs on
account of some eggs-agerated Ian
guage used on the fiery, untamed
stumD.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

THE Radicals in New Hampshire
have nominated Chandler for SEN
ator, aud, of course, they will elect
him, thus adding one more sin to
be laid up against them in that great
day when Gabriel will blow his horn
and Beelzebub will turn loose his
dogs for the final Radical roundup.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

IT is reported that Buffalo Bill
now styles his Wild West Combine
ton of Cowboys Indians and
Greasers: Buffalo Williams Bazaar
its so English, don't cherknow.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

NATURE is self adjustine-high
priced coffee, wheat cornered in Chic
ago, and prohibition prevailing in
Hopkinsville-all combined, are
restoring the good old days of mush
and milk.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

Mrs. PARTINGToN says, when she
was a gal nobody never heard of
casus beili. "People in them times
usto behave themtelves, coming
in early o nights, and living on
plain Yittles."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

THE first step now in making up
evidence to break mans will Is to
make him serve on jury, and after
he dies you can then prove by all
his fellow jurors that he was non
C0ntDos rnemtis.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18


After the storm OF passion there
comes the hour of meditation and
regret. After the battle there are
wounds to heal, and often the rash
impulse Of a single moment prompts
deeds eternity can not annul, There
fore we council all parties to consider
well their surroundings and not sac
rlflce for merely temporary tri-
umph those dearer and purer things
so needn't to the welfare of society.
Twas not the storm nor the light
ming, nor the earthquake that inn
pressed the prophet In his lonely
mountain refuge, but It was "the
still, small voice." that whispered
after the warning elements had ex-
hausted their powers in strife.
In times of tumult weak minds
are drifted with the ebb and
flow, but minds well ballasted
with experience stem the current
and, like proud vessels with
skilled pilots, keep calamity their
course regardless Of the opposing
tide. The greatest evil growing out
Of this slang preaching is the demon
alization 1t causes among the young
men from whose minds all thoughts
of reverence are driven by the coarse
vulgarism of the speaker, whose
words they afterwards repeat on the
street with all the flippancy incident
to budding infidelity. And while
the publication of this obscenity in
newspaper Is something more than
a venial sin, the utterance of such
language from the pulpit is nothing
less than blasphemy.
It Is gratifying to know that the
clergy of GAINESVILLE have so far kept
their pulpits free from those degrad-
ing influences and in this respect
have obeyed the divine injunction
and "kept themselves unspotted from
the world" But such has not been
the case in other parts of the State,
and even In the city OF Nashville the
people have witnessed the sacrelig.
ious spectacle of a meeting opening
with prayer by clergyman who
was presumably rational, and ending
with a TRADE Of slang that would not
be tolerated in any respectable police
court.
These retailers OF musty jokes and
stale vulgarity feel immunity from
criticism because Of the pulpit In
which they brazenly stand without
fear Of the temperance Of him who
once scourged the money changer
from the temple. And thus, after
having "stolen the livery Of HEAVIER
toserve the devil in" they lay thel
sacreligious hands upon the Ark o
the Covenant, which none but thu
. Levites were permitted to:touch, ant
with effrontery unprecedented the,
presume to hurl their venom upoI
| every citizen who dares to speal
, his sentiments or cast his vote as ,
| freeman.
T The time has come when publ,
. sentiment demands that he who would
minister in sacred things, If he cal
not "point the path to heaven ant
lead the way" must at least posses
the manners Of gentleman II h
D would command the respect Of other
. who are as much interested as he cal
, possibly be in the enlightenment
and advancement of society. When
ever the Pulpit is placed lower thar
the Pews the disasters resulting from
the evolution and the responsibilit,
) for those disasters will rest upoI
| those who originated and encourages
the experiment.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

THE coffee market in New York
has been excited for some time, and
on the 18th instant the panic came.
The extreme decline is form 21-30
two weeks before down to 10 cents,
or q 81 cents per pound.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

BUFFALO BILL has written letter
to the authenticated Thomas p.
Ochiltree, in which he says; "Tve
got the blg-bugs solid, from the
Queen down."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

THE Brownsville States Democrat
was one year old last week and Is
one of the best Democratic papers in
the State. 1t Is one of our favorite
exchanges and the CHRONICLE
wishes 1t many happy and prosper
GUS anniversaries.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

NAPOLEON once remarked that
"Russla was n despotism limited
only by assassination" and the re-
mark applies to-day as we'll as ever.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

Red Shirt and Bronco Bill have
visited the English Parliament.
Mr.. Shirt thinks the English law
makers are too slow.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND recently
said that Lccretary Lamar's intellect
was the clearest and most eompre-
hensive he had ever come In contact
with
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

THE Watermelon campaign will
open very soon and the colored
voters of the rural districts will be-
gin to weaken in their loyalty to the
Postum as being heavens last best
..;c
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

Two valuable lots adjoining Presby-
terrain church on Main street, and OPP
posite ]. F. Couts, residence. AprE
to Jas. T. Wood. Msy14, -ta
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

THE steamboat owners Of the
United States held meeting IN
Cincinnati June 18th and 14th for
the purpose of organizing and form
ing Mutual Protective Association.
The principal object in view being
tine appointment Of representative
at each of the river points to detect
any visolation Of the Interstate law
by the railroads. A general assess
ment was made on all steamboats, to
create fund for the prosecution OF
any cases that may arise. The
trustees meet in Cincinnati the sec
ond Monday i'm each month to COM
pare notes, and advise the associa-
ton of any changes in rates that may
be deemed advisable. The meeting
was harmonious throughout, and
will doubtless work much good to
the shipping public as well as the
boats themselves.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

ATthe fourth Of July celebration In
Des Moines Iowa this year II Is safe to
say that President Cleveland will
get no chicken pie.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

THERE are a great many things
which cause a man to drink, and one
Of them Is thirst Tezas Sylin0s
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18
$500 PER ANNuM IN ADVANCE.

THE trial of the celebrated "bood-
ler," Jake Sharp has been going on
in New York this week.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18

You will do well remember that
on Friday, June oath the public sale
of valuable town lots, wagons, ma
chinery, tools, ETC., by ]. p. Y.
Whitfield will take place. Remem-
Der the date, Friday morning, and
take the advertisement in the CHRoN-
IcLE with you when you go to the
sale.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18
Public Schools.

The annual election Of superintend-
ent and teachers Of our public schools
was held by the Board Of Education
June 10th. Superintendent, j. w.
Graham was reelected by acclama-
ton.
Hall teacher in the High School
Miss Lou Lowell; assistants, Miss
Eva Bailey and Miss Hulah Lowell;
Mrs. Shackelford Hall teacher in the
Grammar Department, assistants
Miss Mamie Bates and Miss Minnie
Shackelford Miss Jennie Foster
Hail teacher In the Primary Depart
ment, assistants Miss Kate Rogers,
Matte Rudolph, Annabel Major andl
Miss Kathleen O'Brien in place Of
Miss Jennie Keesee who did not ap-
ply.
COLORED SCHOOL.
G. M. Watson Principal, Miss Liz
zie Ramey assistant; III. T.. Lockertr
Hall teacher, Grammar Department,
s. w. Grant Hall teacher Primary
Department, assistants; Mrs. H.
Merry. A vacancy TO be filled when
Prof. Graham will examine appli-
cants.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-06-18


WE notice reduction in the all
rail tobacco note from Kentucky to
New York and rate formerly 81 cents
to 40 cents. We presume this is
caused by the stiff river competition
offered by the GAINESVILLE and
Paducah packet company which has
been getting larger share Of the
business than the railroad wished.
This reduction of rates right in the
middle Of the busy season when
freight is plentiful, shows the good
advantage of having responsible
competing line. Notwithstanding
the cut the Paducah company is
doing business at the old stand and
taking everything offered.